The 16th International Coloured Gemstone Association(ICA) Congress was held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel earlier this year with over 500 gemmologists, gem traders, government officials and journalists from over 30 countries attending.
The theme of the congress was “Sapphire and more…”. It was heartening to observe, that there were speakers who have carried out a lot of research and investigations about the Ceylon sapphire. In fact the first speaker of the congress, Jack Ogden from the US, spoke of the history of sapphires which included some jewellery from Afghanistan, made of Ceylon sapphires dating back to over 2000 years. Speaker after speaker spoke of the virtues of Sri Lankan sapphires. But as I listened to the many speakers I silently wondered how long our sapphire industry could survive.
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